Fake news

The Gascón Law consists of a single article and an apostille, namely: "All satire is prophecy. All parody is euphemism". This may be true at all times, but one of the hallmarks of today's public conversation is the 24/7 news cycle, which is both going very fast and going nowhere. . Not only are the urgent and the important confused, the real and the simulacrum are also mixed. In the last five years, Spain has experienced a postmodern coup d'état, whose protagonists still do not know if it was serious or not; a motion of censure against a Prime Minister who decided to get drunk while being thrown out, and from which a new president emerged supported by those who had staged a civil uprising a few months earlier; the first coalition government, with the support of a party that opposed caste and managed to place a married couple on the Council of Ministers; the rise and fall of a centrist liberal party and the rise of a far-right force. Meanwhile, social scientists explained what bias is and then exemplified it with their behavior. Faced with a panorama, Daniel Gascón talks about issues that matter to him through ways that he likes, with humor as a fundamental lens and the vignette as an accurate illustration. Fake news is a kind of chronicle of alternative facts, as well as a strange attempt at diagnosis. Because, as reality insists on reminding us every day, all satire is prophecy and all parody is euphemism.